Custom canvas prints, made in Canada from your own photo

Open the Custom Canvas product page, pick the shape that matches your photograph, choose a size and a wrap, then upload the file. The upload happens in the browser and accepts JPEG, PNG, HEIC and TIFF. Before anything prints, a person opens the file and checks it against the size you ordered. If it is sharp enough it goes straight into production, usually the same day.

Divide the pixel width of your photo by 100. That number, in inches, is the widest canvas it will fill cleanly. A 3000-pixel-wide file makes a comfortable 30-inch canvas. Between 75 and 100 pixels per inch still prints well on canvas because the weave hides a little softness. Below 75 you will see it, and we will email you before charging ahead.

Almost always, yes. A recent iPhone or Android photo is around 4000 pixels on the long edge, which is enough for a 40-inch canvas. The files that cause trouble are ones that have been through a messaging app. WhatsApp and Messenger compress photos hard, sometimes down to 1000 pixels. Send the original from the camera roll, or ask whoever took it to AirDrop or email the full-size version.

They are the four ways the sides of the canvas can be finished, and it is the choice people get wrong most often. Mirror reflects the outer band of the picture around the sides, so nothing on the front is lost. Blur softens that same band. Fill carries the photograph itself around the edge, which uses up about an inch and a half of the image. White leaves the sides plain. If a face is near the edge of your photo, choose Mirror or White.

That is the thickness of the wooden bar behind the canvas. Three-quarter inch sits close to the wall and suits smaller pieces and sets hung side by side. Inch-and-a-half stands proud and casts a shadow line, which is what makes a big canvas look like art rather than an enlargement. Past about 30 inches wide, the deeper bar is worth it.

From $45 for an 8 by 8 inch up to $520 for a 60 by 40 inch, across 55 sizes in eight shapes. The price covers the printing, the gallery wrap, the pine stretcher frame, the UV satin coat and the hanging hardware. Shipping is free anywhere in Canada with no minimum order. The one paid extra is an optional external frame in white or black at $200.

The cropping to your chosen shape happens on screen while you order, so you see exactly what is kept. Small corrections are part of the job: we straighten a tilted horizon, lift a dark exposure and remove a colour cast without being asked. Anything larger, like removing an object or restoring a damaged print, needs a note with your order so we can tell you whether it is possible first.

Close, but not identical, and that is physics rather than printing. A screen makes colour with light and a canvas reflects it, so the very brightest and most saturated tones on a phone display cannot be matched with ink on cloth. Deep blacks lift slightly and neon colours settle down. Everything else, including skin tones, lands where you expect.

Printing, stretching and packing is normally done inside one business day. After that, expect 2 to 3 business days across Ontario, Quebec and the Prairies, 3 to 5 to British Columbia and Atlantic Canada, and up to 7 to Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Everything is made and shipped inside Canada, so nothing waits at a border.

Yes. The canvas is stretched, the staples are on the back rather than the sides, and the hanging hardware is already fitted. Take it out of the box, put a screw in the wall and hang it. Nothing needs assembling and no frame shop is involved.

Only for a short window, because production starts quickly. Email us within a couple of hours and we can usually swap the size, the wrap or the file. Once it is on the printer the canvas has been cut to your dimensions and cannot go back into stock.

REPLACE — state your actual policy here, in plain words. Because every custom canvas is cut and printed to one person's order, most printers limit returns to manufacturing faults rather than change of mind, and that is a perfectly defensible position. What is not defensible is leaving it vague. This is the question that decides the order for a first-time customer, and silence costs you the sale more often than an honest no would.

Yes, and it is worth planning the set before you order rather than after. Pick one shape and stay with it, use the same wrap on every piece, and keep the three-quarter inch depth so they sit flat together. For larger runs, our trade programme handles volume pricing.